On Tuesday 29 October 2002 23:22, dan carter wrote: > guitarlynn wrote: > >On Monday 28 October 2002 23:20, dan carter wrote: > >>Is there an a linux implementation of this protocol? I have been > >>trying to get something like that going for ages to join two > >> private LANs over the internet. All the VPN stuff i've looked at > >> doesn't seem to be able to forward the broadcast packets even if > >> they are directed broadcast packets, which breaks warcraft 3 LAN > >> game discovery and simple broadcast discovery for smb browse lists > > > >Gads!!!! I hope not.. :-) > >You might take a gander at WINS or some other resolution method > >outside of NetBeui/NetBIOS. You do _not_ want to be spewing > > broadcast garbage outside of your subnet when better, more > > controlled methods are available. Setting up a WINS server on each > > subnet that sync with each other is much more preferrable. > > Getting Warcraft III going was actually the more pressing > requirement, broadcast browse lists would just be a nice bonus > otherwise you have to keep using \\ip address\sharename strings to > find file shares. They are only small networks <5 machines each, so > being overwhelmed with broadcast packets is not going to be a > problem. For tiny networks i often find it is more work to do things > the 'proper' way (eg dhcp server) than the 'hard' way (manual ip > settings and a text file of who has what ip)
A M$ WINS server will likely be a pain to get to sync across subnets, however Samba servers do it effortlessly. It might be harder to setup a WINS server, but at last look the line added to smb.conf only required "wins server=yes" to set it up as a wins server. You also need to add a line for sync'ing the remote servers (by ip address). If this is not something your going to want to try, your probably not going to have any success without a lot more work across subnets. My suggestion was from the stand-point that I don't want Win2K/XP to be broadcasting all my LAN information out to the internet..... there is enough trash in my logs without adding more to someone else's logs. -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
